Quotes About Mystery

God wanted to make known to those among the Gentiles the glorious wealth of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. Colossians 1:27

We speak God's hidden wisdom in a mystery, which God predestined before the ages for our glory. 1 Corinthians 2:7

There isn't any great mystery about me. What I do is glamorous and has an awful lot of white-hot attention placed on it. But the actual work requires the same discipline and passion as any job you love doing, be it as a very good pipe fitter or a highly creative artist.

American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid.

I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it.

In researching 'The Luminaries,' I did read quite a lot of 20th-century crime. My favourites out of that were James M. Cain, Dassiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Graham Greene and Patricia Highsmith.

Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you.

The men I find myself attracted to are the ones who don't say anything and are quite shy.

I shy away from showing cruelty on the page. A lot of the violence in my books actually happens off stage. The police come on to the scene after the event has occurred.

Siberia is a state of mind.

Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.

'What do you really think happens after you die?' That's the question that everyone, everyone, everyone asks. And I'm so sick of it. But my true answer is, I don't know. And there's no way I'm going to find out 'til it happens.

Personally, I prefer the dark side.

As a kid, I was a Hitchcock lover; I cared about the dark side of things.

Tilda Swinton would be a great person to a reading on because I think she is such an interesting and fascinating person. To see a personal side to her would be really intriguing.

There is a dark side of me - it's the side people don't really get to see. I think everyone has that.

In writing, I apply my feminine side and respect the mystery involved in creation.

Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.

It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.

Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs.

And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.

It's kind of like Silence of the lambs meets Boogey Nights.

Bob Dylan is either the most public private man in the world or the most private public one. He has a reputation for being silent and reclusive; he is neither.

With this silent film, I wanted to hide what was going on in the clinic. I wanted to cover it up in the best cinematic way and in an entertaining manner.